Jean Charest Quotes

If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

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• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hope

• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Focus
  • Try
  • Tough

• Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Future

• In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Money
  • Military
  • Year

• In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • American
  • Man

• When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Writing
  • Story
  • First

• By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Career
  • Best

• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Political
  • Abuse
  • Medical

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Treatment
  • Respond
  • Even

• Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Man
  • Always
  • Cut

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Rock

• The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Different
  • Done
  • Why

• Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Right
  • New
  • Now

• I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.

  

  John Carpenter
  • Movie

• Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

  

  Cynthia Payne

• You're going to have disappointments. But how you handle those disappointments is the important thing for you and everybody that's around you. That's what I found from being not only a player but also a coach.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Important
  • Player

• Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Believe
  • Nature

• If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

  

  Jean Charest
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